Player Name: Effy Contact: foggytealeafs on Discord, mollymauktealeaf on Plurk Invited by: knocks on your floorboards like the tell-tale heart are you gonna let me outta here or Other Characters: Edward Kenway, Noctis Lucis Caelum, March 7th, Percy tl;dr de Rolo, Belle. I dropped Leon S. Kennedy before this app!
Character Name: Jin Ling, courtesy name Rulan Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (novelverse) Canon History:Jin Ling’s history tab.
Canon Personality:
HOTHEADED. Half-raised by Jiang Cheng and it shows, Jin Ling's temper is quick to flare up and he is slow to back down. When pissed off enough, he'll draw his sword without thinking, and it is so, so, so easy to piss him off. Just talk shit about his parents or his uncles or his dog or his sword or himself (among many many many buttons) and he'll lose it so fast you'll find yourself flat on your back with a bruise on your cheek in no time.
IMPULSIVE. Like any teenager, Jin Ling is incredibly impulsive. Unlike any teenager, he has cultivation abilities, which means he is unfortunately afflicted with YA Main Character Syndrome, in that he will run off to pursue his goals or get his answers without quite considering the danger that it might land himself in.
ENTITLED. Jin Ling grew up as the clan heir of the richest clan in the MDZS setting, and comes off as a result as rather spoiled. He comes off as deeply arrogant when we first meet him, looking down on other cultivators on the same night hunt he is who don't have his advantages, and unmindful of the struggles of other people around him. This changes over time as he matures and grows into himself, but the habit's still ingrained.
ABANDONMENT ISSUES. Jin Ling's parents died when he was too young to remember them. He's been shuttled back and forth all his life between his stern jiujiu Jiang Cheng and his indulgent but busy shushu Jin Guangyao. It's no wonder, then, that he clings so tightly to what's left of his family, that he's so desperate to prove himself, that he's so insecure deep inside, because he's been left behind before—what's stopping those around him from doing it again?
DETERMINED. Come hell or high water, absolutely nothing is going to stop Jin Ling from his goals. This ties in with the impulsiveness to some degree, but also, Jin Ling, with the assistance of his spiritual dog Fairy, was able to get through a robust three-layered xianxia security system designed to scare off civilians and cultivators alike. The kid will fight like hell to get something if he's determined to get it, and very little can stop him.
WILLING TO CHANGE. Jin Ling has something that much of the Jin sect lacks (save his dad Jin Zixuan), and that's the willingness to listen to others and to change for the better. He's at first unwilling to even listen to a cultivator like "Mo Xuanyu" (really a resurrected Wei Wuxian), but after some time (and a horror-movie field trip), he considers the advice that his uncle gives to him and incorporates it into the way he fights off his bullies. He grows to care about and empathize with others, a strength that comes from his mother Jiang Yanli.
HEART OF GOLD. Jin Ling cares deeply for those around him, when given the chance to interact with them more. He's willing to stand up to and disobey his beloved uncles in order to do what he believes is the right thing to do. He finds it in his heart to forgive Wei Wuxian and the Ghost General, Wen Ning, for their roles in his parents' accidental deaths. As much as he argues with the other juniors, when push comes to shove, he'll fight alongside them and risk his life to watch their backs.
AU Name: Jin Rulan (Americanized: Roland Jin), goes by Jin Ling AU Age: 18 (canon age: 15) AU Birthday: Nov. 21
AU History:content warnings: abduction of minor, minor in peril, claustrophobia, buried alive, possession, homesickness, themes of bullying.
born to a lawyer and a teacher, Jin Rulan was a bright, if bratty, young boy who grew up unaware of the supernatural—the closest his family came was his mother’s brother being deeply involved in possession research before they cut off all contact with him. by all accounts he was an ordinary boy who became a somewhat arrogant teenager with a great big chip on his shoulder.
this changed when he was sixteen. he and a friend he was having a sleepover with were walking back from a midnight corner store run when a hungry yao ambushed them, and to save his friend, Jin Rulan instinctively picked up the nearest sharp object and stabbed the monster to death, holy light pouring forth from him. somehow, he just knew how to defeat the yao, despite having never encountered one as far as he remembered.
he did this in full view of a Black Order agent, who swept in and got them both medical attention. however, while at the hospital, the Black Order pulled strings to pull Jin Rulan out before his parents could get there, and then pulled him into their organization, where they gave him an ultimatum. either he joined up, or his friend, still in the hospital and swearing up and down that they had been attacked by a real live monster, would.
Jin Rulan would end up training and then working for the Order for a whole year. in that time, he started remembering his past life more and more, which exacerbated his issues and made him significantly more irritable and angry with whoever he was working with. many times, he nearly came to blows with other Guardians, because he was just that much of an asshole, and also because it was easy to rile him up and exacerbate his already short temper.
it came to a head when he and another Guardian named Wen Chao were supposed to deal with some monster haunting a mausoleum who killed via burying people alive. neither of them liked each other much, but Jin Rulan was a lot more skilled than Wen Chao at slaying monsters and Wen Chao knew it. so he let Jin Rulan kill the monster, knowing that in doing so, Jin Rulan would be buried alive. then he simply…left him behind.
Jin Rulan kicked and screamed and clawed at the earth, trying to get himself free. at the last moment, as his air was running out, he was honestly terrified he would die. then he heard a voice, vaguely Irish and worried: oh, shit, what are you doing here? do you need help getting out? let me help you.
Jin Rulan said: yes.
the ghost who helped him really hadn’t meant to properly possess him—they only wanted to help get him free of the earth, having once been killed this same way, so they didn’t want anyone else to get hurt like this again. however, as this was their first time possessing anyone, they, uh, fucked up a touch, and instead of being able to get loose immediately, they found themselves…well, stuck.
after that, Jin Rulan has been going by his past life’s name of Jin Ling and keeping well away from the Black Order, even after hearing of its new and more merciful management. he spent his 18th birthday having stowed away on a ship returning to America, and has been hitchhiking slowly but determinedly to Kaisou since late November.
along the way, he picked up a small and adorable little shih-tzu that he named Sunny.
AU Personality Differences:
ABANDONMENT ISSUES (BUT WORSE!) Jin Ling got to stay with his parents until he was sixteen. Unfortunately, that just made his insecurities surrounding them so much worse. He is deeply, sincerely worried about what they'll say if they find out that their beloved missing son has been in some kind of messed-up secret supernatural organization for a whole year before he got almost killed because he trusted the wrong person. He's absolutely terrified they'll think he's insane, or they'll be furious with him, or that some form of harm will come down on them, or god only knows what else. None of this is helped by the fact that his Uncle Ying also cut off all contact and vanished into thin air before he was born.
SCRAPPY. Having been abandoned to a yao that tried to kill him, and then being possessed by a friendly ghost, and then having been on the run for a year, Jin Ling's significantly less entitled than he was before, and far scrappier and more resourceful. This is a kid who's learned pickpocketing and stealing and lying on his papers and thinking on his feet, because the alternative is much, much worse.
CYNICAL. In his past life, as much of a loner as Jin Ling was, he always knew he could rely on his uncles. In this one, Jin Ling's only been able to rely on a friendly ghost and a dog, because the other guardians he had to deal with in the Black Order, uh, really did not like him much, and he can't bring himself to contact his parents and reveal to them what he's been up to and what he's had to do. His morality's taken a bit of a dent, as a result—he won't blink an eye at swiping some cash or forging papers, and he acts like he's not surprised when people disappoint him.
Element: Light Purchased Powers: Regeneration - 3 pts Gravitation Manipulation - 3 pts Holy Imbuement - 2 pts Conjure Rainbows - 1 pt Possession:Dollar Store Mollymauk Tealeaf a friendly ghost with no memory who goes by the name Casper, for lack of anything else to call them. their contract price is that every week, Jin Ling has to steal something with the aim of giving it to someone else. usually he fulfills this by swiping dog food off a shelf and giving it to his dog Sunny.
Jin Ling and Casper actually get along pretty well, with Jin Ling trusting them greatly, they're just both not sure how to get un-possessed without bringing harm to either one of them, which is why Jin Ling's made it all the way to Kaisou.
Effy | Jin Ling | Paranormal Modern AU
Contact: foggytealeafs on Discord, mollymauktealeaf on Plurk
Invited by: knocks on your floorboards like the tell-tale heart are you gonna let me outta here or
Other Characters: Edward Kenway, Noctis Lucis Caelum, March 7th, Percy tl;dr de Rolo, Belle. I dropped Leon S. Kennedy before this app!
Character Name: Jin Ling, courtesy name Rulan
Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (novelverse)
Canon History: Jin Ling’s history tab.
Canon Personality:
HOTHEADED. Half-raised by Jiang Cheng and it shows, Jin Ling's temper is quick to flare up and he is slow to back down. When pissed off enough, he'll draw his sword without thinking, and it is so, so, so easy to piss him off. Just talk shit about his parents or his uncles or his dog or his sword or himself (among many many many buttons) and he'll lose it so fast you'll find yourself flat on your back with a bruise on your cheek in no time.
IMPULSIVE. Like any teenager, Jin Ling is incredibly impulsive. Unlike any teenager, he has cultivation abilities, which means he is unfortunately afflicted with YA Main Character Syndrome, in that he will run off to pursue his goals or get his answers without quite considering the danger that it might land himself in.
ENTITLED. Jin Ling grew up as the clan heir of the richest clan in the MDZS setting, and comes off as a result as rather spoiled. He comes off as deeply arrogant when we first meet him, looking down on other cultivators on the same night hunt he is who don't have his advantages, and unmindful of the struggles of other people around him. This changes over time as he matures and grows into himself, but the habit's still ingrained.
ABANDONMENT ISSUES. Jin Ling's parents died when he was too young to remember them. He's been shuttled back and forth all his life between his stern jiujiu Jiang Cheng and his indulgent but busy shushu Jin Guangyao. It's no wonder, then, that he clings so tightly to what's left of his family, that he's so desperate to prove himself, that he's so insecure deep inside, because he's been left behind before—what's stopping those around him from doing it again?
DETERMINED. Come hell or high water, absolutely nothing is going to stop Jin Ling from his goals. This ties in with the impulsiveness to some degree, but also, Jin Ling, with the assistance of his spiritual dog Fairy, was able to get through a robust three-layered xianxia security system designed to scare off civilians and cultivators alike. The kid will fight like hell to get something if he's determined to get it, and very little can stop him.
WILLING TO CHANGE. Jin Ling has something that much of the Jin sect lacks (save his dad Jin Zixuan), and that's the willingness to listen to others and to change for the better. He's at first unwilling to even listen to a cultivator like "Mo Xuanyu" (really a resurrected Wei Wuxian), but after some time (and a horror-movie field trip), he considers the advice that his uncle gives to him and incorporates it into the way he fights off his bullies. He grows to care about and empathize with others, a strength that comes from his mother Jiang Yanli.
HEART OF GOLD. Jin Ling cares deeply for those around him, when given the chance to interact with them more. He's willing to stand up to and disobey his beloved uncles in order to do what he believes is the right thing to do. He finds it in his heart to forgive Wei Wuxian and the Ghost General, Wen Ning, for their roles in his parents' accidental deaths. As much as he argues with the other juniors, when push comes to shove, he'll fight alongside them and risk his life to watch their backs.
AU Name: Jin Rulan (Americanized: Roland Jin), goes by Jin Ling
AU Age: 18 (canon age: 15)
AU Birthday: Nov. 21
AU History: content warnings: abduction of minor, minor in peril, claustrophobia, buried alive, possession, homesickness, themes of bullying.
AU Personality Differences:
ABANDONMENT ISSUES (BUT WORSE!) Jin Ling got to stay with his parents until he was sixteen. Unfortunately, that just made his insecurities surrounding them so much worse. He is deeply, sincerely worried about what they'll say if they find out that their beloved missing son has been in some kind of messed-up secret supernatural organization for a whole year before he got almost killed because he trusted the wrong person. He's absolutely terrified they'll think he's insane, or they'll be furious with him, or that some form of harm will come down on them, or god only knows what else. None of this is helped by the fact that his Uncle Ying also cut off all contact and vanished into thin air before he was born.
SCRAPPY. Having been abandoned to a yao that tried to kill him, and then being possessed by a friendly ghost, and then having been on the run for a year, Jin Ling's significantly less entitled than he was before, and far scrappier and more resourceful. This is a kid who's learned pickpocketing and stealing and lying on his papers and thinking on his feet, because the alternative is much, much worse.
CYNICAL. In his past life, as much of a loner as Jin Ling was, he always knew he could rely on his uncles. In this one, Jin Ling's only been able to rely on a friendly ghost and a dog, because the other guardians he had to deal with in the Black Order, uh, really did not like him much, and he can't bring himself to contact his parents and reveal to them what he's been up to and what he's had to do. His morality's taken a bit of a dent, as a result—he won't blink an eye at swiping some cash or forging papers, and he acts like he's not surprised when people disappoint him.
Element: Light
Purchased Powers:
Regeneration - 3 pts
Gravitation Manipulation - 3 pts
Holy Imbuement - 2 pts
Conjure Rainbows - 1 pt
Possession:
Dollar Store Mollymauk Tealeafa friendly ghost with no memory who goes by the name Casper, for lack of anything else to call them. their contract price is that every week, Jin Ling has to steal something with the aim of giving it to someone else. usually he fulfills this by swiping dog food off a shelf and giving it to his dog Sunny.Jin Ling and Casper actually get along pretty well, with Jin Ling trusting them greatly, they're just both not sure how to get un-possessed without bringing harm to either one of them, which is why Jin Ling's made it all the way to Kaisou.